On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 13:20 -0400, David Boles wrote: > Roger Heflin wrote: > > David Boles wrote: > > > > Hotmail I would probably agree with, but both gmail and yahoo provide > > higher end paid for service if you want it, and both yahoo and gmail are > > sub-contractors for a number of ISP's mail systems. > > > > I am on gmail because my ISP's email had enough issues that I kept > > getting unsubscribed from various lists (I assume because of funny > > bounces). > > > > My ISP has now fixed that issue by making some sort of deal with gmail > > for gmail to provide their mail service .... but I might as well use > > gmail directly since that email address will stay around for a lot > > longer than the one through the ISP's gmail connection. > > > My story is basically the same as your's Roger. I use gmail POP, with > Thunderbird, because my ISP provides poor service and their SPAM filters are > crap. I can filter the SPAM here of course, and do filter what gets through, > but it annoys me to download it in the first place. > > It is using Gmail online that causes the rich text. Gmail defaults to that and > it is *not* obvious to the writer nor is it clear just how/if it is disabled. > For some anyway. > > As for Ric? Don't mess with him too much. He's crazy. ;-) Huh? Who told?? <grins insanely> Besides being crazy, I get iRaTe at times with poor ISP service, misquoted fees and various sundry issues that may cause me to switch. No matter to me, as I have pop service from Gmail and my email address has yet to change. AND RedHat used Google in-house, from the day of Google's inception. We were urged to use their search services back in 1999-2000. This was back when Matthew was just coming on board, IPO, etc. So, Google has a very long close relationship with RedHat. If guilt through association has context here, so does Fedora. Without going crazy here, I fail to see just how maintaining a relationship with Gmail, which has never failed me, equates to "hiding". I use what works for me and it's never cost me one dime. :| Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list